tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.comments2012-06-20T15:25:41.178-04:00From Ridge to Reef and City to Citydez phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00348943319117519183noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-86798549693114182012012-06-20T15:25:41.178-04:002012-06-20T15:25:41.178-04:00Hi,
I have a quick question about your blog, do y...Hi,<br /><br />I have a quick question about your blog, do you think you could email me?<br /><br />JillianJillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06149251610353710675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-32788149160021188442011-08-10T11:01:32.080-04:002011-08-10T11:01:32.080-04:00Thanks Miguel - I&#39;m glad we can keep in touch....Thanks Miguel - I&#39;m glad we can keep in touch. I&#39;m sorry I&#39;ll miss you on Jenny&#39;s next visit to Madrid :-/dez phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348943319117519183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-40439262015407518152011-08-02T23:37:13.320-04:002011-08-02T23:37:13.320-04:00Can´t wait for the next post ;-)Can´t wait for the next post ;-)MGRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06375169693366538668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-85624452121686248982009-09-28T12:07:32.559-04:002009-09-28T12:07:32.559-04:00Does anyone know what year the solar panels were r...Does anyone know what year the solar panels were removed?<br /><br />Also, does anyone know where the panels are today?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-20765382107542273882009-09-09T12:58:55.717-04:002009-09-09T12:58:55.717-04:00I am so jealous of your CSA. I am never around to...I am so jealous of your CSA. I am never around to make the pickup and R&#39;s schedule is much too sporadic. It also reminds me I&#39;ve sorely neglected my own food blog even though I&#39;ve been cooking up a storm!LeeAnnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05932163719664872250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-74091636833135379852009-09-09T04:39:28.638-04:002009-09-09T04:39:28.638-04:00I could never take the CSA step; I knew about them...I could never take the CSA step; I knew about them and even helped catalog deliveries, but left the country before I could join any. Do you think you could ever go back? <br />I like to think that the whole &quot;food thing&quot; makes one look forward to each season that much more.<br />Take winter, for example. I&#39;m even looking forward to winter as a &quot;reset button&quot;, not to mention planning the next year&#39;s crop rotations.<br /><br />I was told I might be seeing you in Nagoya. If so, just know that you can brag AS MUCH as you want about your experiences, I&#39;d eat it up.kodouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647378471803732502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-3643219908528217812009-09-07T21:58:42.008-04:002009-09-07T21:58:42.008-04:00old blog! :)old blog! :)MangoNatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03653694827125843736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-11431200842389991202009-07-22T10:11:09.872-04:002009-07-22T10:11:09.872-04:00Dez! cool idea...
I definitely need to at least T...Dez! cool idea...<br /><br />I definitely need to at least TRY to bring my diet back around to the kind we had on the farm. Keep the recipes comin&#39;...benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16178217936894254981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-3657820168302351592009-05-06T14:30:00.000-04:002009-05-06T14:30:00.000-04:00dez, you are awesome. thank you so much for making...dez, you are awesome. thank you so much for making these videos - i am going to do a 'final ridge to reef post' to pull together that story, and i will definitely use this video to help tell the tale. <br /><br />i miss all of you so much and can't wait till we can meet again. <br /><br />i hope life in the city is treating you beautifully, and i hope you (as i hope for myself) never completely close the book on st. croix and all the learning that started there. <br /><br />ps. do you have any pictures of wendy's backyard? i'd love to see what it looks like now...benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16178217936894254981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-88881187419534272082009-03-14T12:38:00.000-04:002009-03-14T12:38:00.000-04:00so. effing. good. all of it.so. effing. good. all of it.Sandswepthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15433188157999810706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-69516575346082528502009-03-14T09:54:00.000-04:002009-03-14T09:54:00.000-04:00You have so much to teach me when you get back. Y...You have so much to teach me when you get back. Yum Yum!!<BR/>can&#39;t wait to see you soon!! <BR/>&lt;3Ximenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171626216556607163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-16779210759043291092009-03-13T23:03:00.000-04:002009-03-13T23:03:00.000-04:00this looks deliciousthis looks deliciousBenSeggnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-75011499920550408202009-03-10T21:19:00.000-04:002009-03-10T21:19:00.000-04:00Something better than cake? I enjoyed your ditch-d...Something better than cake? I enjoyed your ditch-digging, but now you are going too far... Mad bush skillz! That still makes me laugh.D-rocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-53095532530434846332009-02-25T07:23:00.000-05:002009-02-25T07:23:00.000-05:00Dez - your explanation rocks! As a non-math perso...Dez - your explanation rocks! As a non-math person, I greatly appreciate the way you described this!Stevehttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=798790176&ref=profilenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-28038857438640607252009-02-23T06:25:00.000-05:002009-02-23T06:25:00.000-05:00You are so right. A hot shower is one of those lux...You are so right. A hot shower is one of those luxuries that people take for granted, but are unwilling to live without. It's much like our composting toilet, we have a regular toilet with a septic tank for guests. The composting toilet is clean and doesn't smell bad because of the sawdust we mix in, but if you have people over to your farm to teach them about sustainability and they have to use an outhouse, that is what they remember.<BR/><BR/>The passive solar hose works best when you are in a climate like we are, 5-6 full hours of sun a day is enough to get a long length of hose hot even if you are pouring it out every half hour or so. His is entirely gravity fed, but if you kept an insulated tank nearby, it's not impossible to gather more than a hose-length of water and you can keep it warm into the night. <BR/><BR/>I would love to check out that summer camp!dez phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348943319117519183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-38894636127579932552009-02-22T05:55:00.000-05:002009-02-22T05:55:00.000-05:00Dez this blog is ridiculously entertaining.Apropos...Dez this blog is ridiculously entertaining.<BR/><BR/>Apropos of the coiled black hose technique, I heard of a mobile summer camp that has a seriously lengthy black pipe (like enough of it to require one of those 10-foot wooden spools) that they would lay out winding back and forth down the side of whatever incline they had camped near, like a Corsican road. The bottom end was filled from the mains water last thing at night, capped, and transferred to a shower faucet. Apparently this allowed the 50+ people to have (brief) warm showers every day which, I think it is fair to say, is one hygeine factor (ha!) that can be the difference between somebody doing or not doing. <BR/><BR/>Very few will willingly change their lifstyle if it means cold showers!jacodemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10229355959725353520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-21161603229106434182009-02-20T14:59:00.000-05:002009-02-20T14:59:00.000-05:00Thank you for the comments. I will definitely add ...Thank you for the comments. I will definitely add a link to your site, energy environment forum.<BR/><BR/>Jack, I love it. Need. Really, how do you define it? I haven't missed anything living in a cabana for the last two months, what do I have? I have a few AC chargers: my laptop (about 20watts), my camera battery (maybe once every 2 weeks), and my phone (about every other day). In addition to that, I have an overhead DC hallogen light, and one energy efficient desk lamp/reading light. I run my speakers off my computer power and haven't needed to charge my iPod because I play everything through pandora on my iPhone or my MacBook. It's primitive, but lot exactly low-tech. <BR/><BR/>Also, as we discussed today, those same celebrities get tax incentives and rebates for putting solar power on their mansions. Who pays those rebates? Cutting their consumption would save more energy than putting the cost of their "green" home onto the average taxpayer. Love it.<BR/><BR/>We should all work harder to subsidize their front-loading washers and energy efficient freezers while we're at it, I'm not rich so obviously I am a lazy loser!dez phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348943319117519183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-63071202031876029772009-02-20T14:31:00.000-05:002009-02-20T14:31:00.000-05:00&quot;The first step in designing any solar or alt...&quot;The first step in designing any solar or alternative energy system is determining the need.&quot;<BR/><BR/>Funny isn&#39;t it, that concept. Then you work deeper, established mainstream methods become obviously and worryingly unsustainable, and then it&#39;s not funny at all.<BR/><BR/>On the same-ish topic, a show over here has a nice tabloidy angle for context: celebrities are interviewed about their lifestyle (how many flight hours did you spend on short haul flights in the last 12 months/long haul flights/what car do you drive/miles/how often do you change your mobile phone...etc etc etc), their results are fed into a computer and then a result is produced that tells them &quot;If every person lived to your standard, we&#39;d need &lt;4.9&gt; planet Earths.<BR/><BR/>At which the celebrities either laugh dismissively, squirm guiltily, or make excuses for their lifestyle... apparently there are no poor people, only losers who should work harder... woopjacodemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10229355959725353520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-77239599662434781832009-02-20T09:46:00.000-05:002009-02-20T09:46:00.000-05:00Suggest you to provide link towww.energyenvironmen...Suggest you to provide link to<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.energyenvironmentforum.com" REL="nofollow">www.energyenvironmentforum.com</A><BR/><BR/>and encourage your readers to use the Energy Environment Forum and get a link back !<BR/>energyenvironmentforum at gmail dot comActvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05636054817731577996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-48518085530427109602009-02-19T10:17:00.000-05:002009-02-19T10:17:00.000-05:00Amen, Steve. We fight the same fight and I appreci...Amen, Steve. We fight the same fight and I appreciate your input and insight. Thank you for it. I look forward to discussing all of this post-VISFI over a good meal. I'm totally inviting myself over to your place because Asuka says I have to see it. (^.-)dez phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348943319117519183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-78705329357565844892009-02-19T10:06:00.000-05:002009-02-19T10:06:00.000-05:00As I&#39;ve found from gardening, in soil there wi...As I&#39;ve found from gardening, in soil there will always be dead bug remains, worm casings, etc. (heck, the worms and pollinators are actually doing the essential labor if you think about it) even though I just use leaves and kitchen/vegetable/shredded paper compost for mulch. So if the goal is to somehow make the process totally animal free, well all I can say is good luck with that.<BR/><BR/>I define &quot;vegan&quot; as simply trying to limit suffering to the extent you can, and that&#39;s mainly based on what you buy and consume. You can&#39;t be totally pure about it even when you grow your own food. So you just do what you can. We might be a small cogs in the struggle against factory farming &amp; agribusiness practices, but we&#39;re still denying them what they want most of all: our money.Stevehttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=798790176&ref=profilenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-25224908671126162122009-02-18T23:04:00.000-05:002009-02-18T23:04:00.000-05:00Thanks for the perspective, Steve. I always enjoy ...Thanks for the perspective, Steve. I always enjoy talking about gardening and food with you. I do respect veganism, but I know it is not for me.<BR/><BR/>I have been thinking about a question that I would like to pose for discussion.. how much of the organic produce that people eat is grown with the manure of animals in captivity? Is it more "vegan" to eat plants that are grown with toxic chemicals because they do not employ the labor and byproduct of animals?dez phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348943319117519183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-53247407300013373152009-02-18T12:38:00.000-05:002009-02-18T12:38:00.000-05:00Although I'm still in what Anthony Boudain calls "...Although I'm still in what Anthony Boudain calls "the Hezbollah-like splinter faction of vegetarianism," I like this approach much better than the "meat comes from Safeway and I don't want to know any more than that" attitude.<BR/><BR/>It's like in Native American hunting, where you ritually thank the animal for its sacrifice and try to set its soul free with respect.<BR/><BR/>If I ever eat meat again, I'd probably either hunt or raise it myself, the way you all are doing it. But I'm still a very happy vegan. I just hope the vegan scientists will continue the quest to invent a better mozzarella substitute.Stevehttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=798790176&ref=profilenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-46433472275544521062009-02-17T09:14:00.000-05:002009-02-17T09:14:00.000-05:00Thank you for your comment Onigiri-man! I look for...Thank you for your comment Onigiri-man! I look forward to hearing more input from you. One of the things we highlighted at our booth at the fair were the practices popularized by Japanese agriculturalist Masanobu Fukuoka. I'll write more about it later, but the "One-Straw Revolution" and his ideas on natural farming are definitely worth checking out.dez phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348943319117519183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7742098567675331633.post-69481679845963640262009-02-17T09:11:00.000-05:002009-02-17T09:11:00.000-05:00Ha, no reason to apologize, it was probably my inc...Ha, no reason to apologize, it was probably my incomplete sentence that I rushed through when I was writing the post. I am correcting it now so that it's more clear. <BR/><BR/>However, burning the wood is one technology that it is likely that the natives would have employed. It would be a lot faster in the decomposition, along with the wood ashes and charcoal for nutrients. The slash-and-burn method of farming can be very beneficial to replenish depleated soils.<BR/><BR/>The Agricultural Fair last weekend was a fun party, but a bit disappointing in terms of how much actual AGRICULTURE was highlighted and how much was just hang out, be seen, and eat johnny cakes. Don't get me wrong, I love the food culture here, but also the point of educating people about agriculture may have missed the mark.dez phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348943319117519183noreply@blogger.com